Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... follows it at all adven- tures ; it is fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire . It has fome malignant power over his mind , and its fascinations are irrefifti- ble . Whatever be the dignity or profundity of ...
... follows it at all adven- tures ; it is fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire . It has fome malignant power over his mind , and its fascinations are irrefifti- ble . Whatever be the dignity or profundity of ...
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... follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the ftage ; but the general fyftem makes gradual advances , and the end of the play ...
... follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the ftage ; but the general fyftem makes gradual advances , and the end of the play ...
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... follows , that between the acts a longer or fhorter time may be allowed to pafs , and that no more account of space or duration is to be ' taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader of a narrative , before whom may pafs in an ...
... follows , that between the acts a longer or fhorter time may be allowed to pafs , and that no more account of space or duration is to be ' taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader of a narrative , before whom may pafs in an ...
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... follow , we read a tranflation of , I prae , fequar . I have been told , that when Ca- liban , after a pleasing dream , fays , I cry'd to fleep again , the author imitates Anacreon , who had , like other man , the fame wish on the fame ...
... follow , we read a tranflation of , I prae , fequar . I have been told , that when Ca- liban , after a pleasing dream , fays , I cry'd to fleep again , the author imitates Anacreon , who had , like other man , the fame wish on the fame ...
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... follows , the inelegance and abfurdity of the old reading ; then by propofing fomething , which to fuperficial readers would feem fpecious , but which the editor rejects with indignation ; then by producing the true reading , with a ...
... follows , the inelegance and abfurdity of the old reading ; then by propofing fomething , which to fuperficial readers would feem fpecious , but which the editor rejects with indignation ; then by producing the true reading , with a ...
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Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...